My favorite poem is Every Time I Climb A Tree, because I spent my summers hidden in the leaves of our River Poplar, high up with the rooftops, TV antennas, birds and insects that busied themselves. 

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I have a Masters in Education and was an elementary and social studies teacher as well as a media-librarian. I am also a mother of three, and have a border collie (who herds our chickens) and two cats, who asked us to adopt them.